Ok, here's my TOEG for the start of the year. I actually started this a couple of months ago inspired by the excelent dystopian wars range and their airships "mm...that would make a great overlord". That and their large war machines made me regret getting rid of my old Space Marine squat army so i just had to start a new one making full use of the availability of spartan and exodus wars minis.
Now, I had two problems that took me a full month to resolve: What stronghold and what basing.
For the stronghold i wanted one of the 3 classic squat stronghold colors: red, blue or green. Blue, well I had just finished painting ultramarines, for green, eh, i'd rather save it for a later Catachan army of something so red it is. Then the shade, the secondary colors, etc, etc. The basing had to contrast nicely with the main color but had a rocky feel to it to reflect the squat homeworlds so I came up with a nice solution after some 5 tests. As I've said, it took me a long time and plenty of tries to get just these two right.
Here's the result so far:
stuff 264 por Settra2010, no Flickr
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these were the miniatures that got me started (again) with squats. Again, spartan makes some great miniatures. The resin had some damage that i had to hide as battle damage with some painting.
stuff 256 por Settra2010, no Flickr
stuff 252 por Settra2010, no Flickr
Some transport for the berserker brotherhood
stuff 246 por Settra2010, no Flickr
The mining bot's
stuff 239 por Settra2010, no Flickr
This is a sample of the infantry. I've painted some 80 so far that i'm mixing up when i finish all of them. they're from the old gw squat sprues and exodus wars range and most have some small variation keeping the theme of red flak jackets. I feel this makes for a slightly irregular look that suits the squat infantry. Most of the exodus wars miniatures were converted in some way to change the biker gang look and steer more towards the gw style squat.
